The President Found His Voice Yesterday

When President Obama finished his remarks in the Rose Garden yesterday morning, I wanted to cheer out loud.
Because he was on fire. He was passionate. He pounded the podium. He raised his voice. And he expressed righteous anger over the fact that Republicans were playing politics with unemployment benefits.
At last, this was the Obama we were yearning for. This was the Obama we wanted to see – and we need to see more of.
No more nice guy. In so many words, President Obama accused Republicans of being hypocrites.
President Obama explained: They say they can’t vote to spend money on anything without cutting something else. And yet they voted for the war in Iraq, Medicare Part D, and George Bush’s tax cuts for the wealthy – and just piled them on the deficit.
And the president pointed out: They say they can’t vote for an extension of unemployment benefits unless they’re paid for. Even though, under George W. Bush, these same Republican Senators voted – four times! – to extend unemployment benefits as an emergency measure.
In the mid-term elections, President Obama made clear, Americans have a choice: between the party that stands for working, middle-class Americans – and the party that stands for the rich elite.
And there are more of us – than there are of them!
That’s my parting shot for today.

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The host of TYT Network's nationally-syndicated Bill Press Show (Monday-Friday from 7-9am ET), Press attends the daily White House press briefing and writes a weekly column for the powerhouse politics website The Hill.